Women Empowerment

Madhumita Shaw, the owner of handicrafts business Pipal Tree, talks about overcoming the struggles in her married life to find independence, and helping hundreds of Jharkhand tribal women find theirs

For the ladies living in Nizamuddin basti in Old Delhi, preparing 700-year-old recipes to cater to folks across the city under Zaika-e-Nizamuddin (ZeN) helped them find their identity and financial independence.

Runjun Begum from Assam was married at 16 and physically abused after giving birth to two daughters. But this didn’t deter her from starting her own business that empowers other women and makes her financially independent.

Anirban and Polumi Nandy run Live Life Happily NGO, which as helped thousands of women across Siliguri earn more with mushroom farming, encouraging them to be financially independent

In Dehradun, Kamalpreet Kaur’s ventre Ora Infini is helping thousands of rural and semi-urban women become financially independent by providing free training in making LED bulbs, a field that most view as a male-dominated industry.

Damyanti Gupta, the first female engineer hired by Ford, migrated to Mumbai from Pakistan during the Partition. Here's her inspiring story.

A school teacher with Sharada Mandir School, Sabina Martins has fought for 35 years through her women’s collective to bring about significant changes for women's safety in Goa - such as an all-women police station at Panjim.

This International Men's Day, we take a look at six Indian men who are unapologetic about their passions and professions.

Punam Rai from Varanasi is the true face of courage. Despite being left paralysed for 15 years, she is empowering thousands of girls today with her organisation Bindeshwar Rai Foundation, wherein she teaches girls taekwondo and painting.

Haryana-based Pooja Sharma started Kshitiz, a self-help group, that makes homemade cookies and food items, which sell like hotcakes in five-star hotels and employ 130 women